Heriot Watt University

Heriot-Watt University graduates are currently working under top industries like Sales, Education, Operations, Finance, Business Development, Information Technology and Engineering. Some of the top employers for these graduates are as follows:

• EY

• Deloitte

• AECOM

• Jacobs

• Turner and Townsend

• ADNOC Grop

• Aramco

• Microsoft

Yes, Nivetha Pethuraj is an Indian actress, known for her Tamil and Telugu films is a graduate of Heriot Watt. She was crowned with Miss India UAE in 2015 and became a finalist in Miss India Worldwide 2015.

Heriot Watt University consists of more than 159,000 alumni members in 190 countries in the world. Some of the notable ones are as follows:

• Graham Watson (Politician)

• Kirsty Smith (Football Player)

• Nivetha Pethuraj (Indian Actress)

• John Thomson (Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveller)

• Jock Clear (Engineer)

• Ruaridh Mollica (Actor) and many more.

Heriot Watt University as an acceptance rate of around 55%. It means that around 55 out of 100 students are accepted to the university, making the university moderately competitive. Students must work really hard on their applications and make it outperform to increase the chances of getting selected.

Heriot Watt University offers 123 postgraduate, 110 undergraduate, and 65 research courses to Indian students in various specializations such as  MBA, MA, M.Sc, M.Des, M.Arch, B.Tech, BBA and B.Sc. Students are offered various majors such as Business & Management Studies, Engineering, IT & Software, Science, Humanities, Architecture, Design, Animation, Education, Commerce, Mass Communication & Media and Medicine & Health Science. The duration of undergraduate courses is around 3 - 5 years depending on the programme whereas PG courses have a duration of around 12 months - 2 years.

Accounting and Commerce is ranked #39 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #27 by CUG, #57 by Guardian and #251 by QS Ranking. Rankings for these courses by reputed ranking bodies are mentioned below:

B.Sc specialisation is ranked #34 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #17 by Guardian and #32 by CUG. B.Sc specialised courses are ranked by some of the reputed ranking bodies which are mentioned below.

Heriot Watt is one of the top-ranked universities in UK. The university is ranked #41 in UK and #260 at a global level, as per Shiksha Popularity Ranking. Heriot Watt also offers some of the top quality and the finest specialised courses. MS is ranked #27 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #201 by Times Higher Education and QS Rankings and #151 by ARWU. B.Tech courses are ranked #22 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #11 by Guardian and #16 by CUG. 

Heriot Watt University Rankings by other ranking bodies are mentioned in the table below.